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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13
FOREIGN.

TIE death is announced in Cheshire Of
David Duncan, member of parliament
for the exchange division of Liverpool
He Is 55 years old.
RUSSIA has obtained from the Herseuts
of Paris loan of 76,O0O,O00 with which
TO cut direct water route from the Don
TO the Black Sea.
FREDERICK RANE, consul general at
Berlin, has informed the state depart
ment that American citizens suffer great
annoyance in Europe unless equipped
with passports.
THE official announcement comes over
the cable that Mr.. Goschen has accepted
the chancellorship of the exohequer as
liberal uuionist. He has been offered the
leadership of the government III the house
of commons.
THE scheme for mobilization on the
troops of Great Britain is perfected, and
by April ] the government will be able TO
get $4,000 troops on shipboard at twenty
four hours notice.
THE wheat harvest in Victoria is r.
100000 bushels, an average OF II bushels
per acre. The exportable excess 10 $780,
600 tons, or 10000 tons over that of the
preceding year.
THE French minister of commerce an
uounces that for the first time in history
wheat of excellent quality and superior
weight has been exported by Russia from
the Caucasus. Large cargoes have been
sent from Poti and Batoum.
a PARIS cable, u states that two
English women have been expOsed in a
matrimonial swindle by which several
young Frenchmen were made to hand
over large sums to the younger as bridal
presents and settlements
OyEBTuREs for a reunion of he liberal
party have been made to Gladstone by
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain. The former
makes the approval Of his Irish govern
mont bill, upon which the last liberal
ministry were defeated, a coalition pre-
cedont to such reunion.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

In the federal court at st, Louis, ON a
plea of entity, Joseph II. White was SEN
fenced TO three years in the penitentiary
for counterfeitiug Brazilian bank notes.
A dying convict at the Missouri peni-
tertiary confessed having murdered and
robbed Judson G. Armstrong near Odes-
sa, two years ago.
TuE grand jury at Chicago has indict
ed Henry Jansen for the murder of his
wife last month During his confne-
meut in Jail ne has steadily feigned in
sanity.
J. H. Roy aud Paul Douglass, who con
Quoted a wholesale and retail iewelry bus
mess at Omaha, have skipped to Canada,
taking with them three trunks containing
$4,000 worth of valuables,
Is the criminal court at st. Louis, on
plea OF guilty, the express-rob9ers Wit
trocb and Haight, we're sentenced TO
seven years each in the Missouri penltcn-
tiary, and Weaver TO five years.
JouN a. OsGoop, who lived at Bitchic
III. suddenly became insane Tuesday
and chased Samuel Haynes with q butch.
orkpife. The latter, in se'fdefense
shot Asgood who died in a short time.
uAN MoMAErY was indicted, W ednes
day, at ST. Louis, for being accessory
after the fact TO the express robbery
llaight, who planned the crime, say.
Fotheringhau, the messenger, is innocent
of all charges brought against him.
FREp WIrroCK AND WEAVER the express
robbers, were lodged in jail at st, Louis
Wittock confessed 60 have planned thu
robbery with Haight, and insists tina
/ rockingham had nothing to do WITH II
7 Nearly 10000 OF the money has been re
covered, the most of II from beneath
/ Oscar Cooks house, in Leavenworth.
GOV. FoEAKFB granted pardon (,
Priestly Buckmaster. the Oldest rr'sone
/ in the Columbus penitertiary He wa
I is years old was under life entcncc
and had served twenty seven years. Dur
ing his stay he had been an exempljar.
prisoner and thirteen thousand prisoner
had come ana gone.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13

FLIES AND CASUALTIES.

FIRE Monday destroyed d. +. Woods
butter and cheese fatory at Covall, ILL.,.
the loss being $4,000.
FLAMES at Lock Haven, Pennsylvania,
destroyed Kremer's building valued at
$4,000.
TWELVE buildings at Upper Marlboro,
Md, valued at 100000, we're burned Thurs
day.
KRrAmEH's Commercial College Build
ing at Lock Haven, Pa, was burned
Thursday morning. The loss is $4,000,
and the insurance foots up $35, $50
GAS explosion Thursday in the An
drews block at Youngstown, Ohio, caused
fire which destroyed a half dozen build
ings, including the First Babtist church.
One man was badly burned, snd another
persisted in the flames. The loss is about
$4,000, with insurance of $4,000.
A SLOPE Of the Henry Clay Colliery,
near Shamokin, Pa, owned by the Phila-
delphia and Reading Coal and Iron com
pany, took fire Thursday morning and
heavy losses are anticipated. Four men
we're burned by explosions of gas and
l,GO0 people have been rendered idle.
An express train from Chicago was
wrecked at West Springfield, Massachu-
sets, by the breaking of an axle. One
person was burned to death and nineteen
others injured. A large amount of mai!
was burned.
ONE of the walls of the addition to the
Pillsbury elevator at Minneapolis col
lapsed Wednesday morning, scattering
$1,000 bushels of No. l hard wheat over
the Manitoba tracks. The loss is very
heavy.
The building at Louisville occupied by
Preuser d. Wellenvoss, wholesalers and re-
tailers of hats and caps, was destroyed
by fire Tuesday morning. The total
loss is $2S.000, with insurance of $4,000.
NEAR Republic, Ohio, early Tuesday
morning an express train on the Balti-
more and Ohio Road, West bound, was in
collision with freight. Immediately
after the crash the cars took fire. Twenty
persons were either killed or Slowly ~cn-
ed to death, and all the mail and express
matter was destroyed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13

Il can tell you of champion mean
man. said the conductor, He's young
farmer who lives down here in the coun-
try apiece. Last summer he got aboard
my train, and in paying his fare display
ed a large roll of bills. just then he saw
d lady whom he appeared TO know, and he
won't over and sat beside her and engaged
ia conversation. When | came up and
asked for the lady's ticket she looked all
/ through her pockets but could not find it,
She said she had bought one but must
have dropped 1t in getting aboard the
cars or in the station. She had no mon
ey, either excepting nickel or two and
few pennies. | suggested that her
friend might loan her the money, but be
said he hadn't any. ! knew he was lying
but could say nothing, being the conduc-
tor. If had been a passenger / should
have punched his head. There was moth
ing for me TO do but to inform the lady
that her fare must be paid or | should
have TO put her Off / did this ~ deli
cately as ] could, not meaning word Of
1t and intending it more for blug at the
farmer than anything else. But he didn't
weaken. His game w2s TO cheek it out
He fel confident | would not put the lady
Oft the trail, and | could tell by the look
=
IN his eye that he ment to try and make
himself solid with her by claiming he
knew all the time he could beat the com
/ pany, and that he only did it for Joke
Some people think il so smart to cheat
railroad. He claimed that she had bought
ticket, and that | was bound to carry
her for that reason. He said that | could
telegraph back TO the station and learn
that such ticket had been sold, and that
would make me all right I showed him
( the rules under which | work, and ex-
planned the whole case to him Ike gen
t!eman, but be still persisted in refusing
to pay for her. By tais time rn~ blood
vas up and l pulled the bell-rope. felt
sorry for the lady. She vas nearly cry
ing from vexation. but when the train
stopped | asked her to follow me. Not
until she reached the platform did her
friend weaken and give me tho money
three dollars end some cents it was-fo-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13

3THE cold wave has descended upon
Mexico. In the capital Monday morning
thin ice formed, the change in the tenn
perature being remarkably sudden.
THR Wisconsin state officers were quiet
ly inaugurated Monday, at Madison, there
being no festivities, as a mark of respect
to the late General Logan.
SHARP earthquakes were felt Tuesday
morning at Charleston and Summerville,
S. G., but no damage to buildings .e-
suited.
The executive committee of the q. A.
K. of Southeastern Michigan met Thurs
day at Adria, and decided TO hold the en-
campment at the latter place, Aug. % to
rs next.
The Nebraska Legislature organic ed
Tuesday, with N. V. Harlan as Speaker
of the House, and George ID. McKeljohn,
President of the Senate. As Harlan is a
friend of Senator Van Wyck, the latter
thinks his prospects for reelection look
bright.
The trade review for the past year
SHOWS that the steel and iron industry has
been particularly prosperous, but the pre-
diction is made that unless prices stop
where they are the present year will see a
flooding of the country with foreign ma
terial.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13
THE LATEST TELEGGlNS
WASHINGTON.

/ President and Mrs. Cleveland kept
open house on New Years. day and were
/ thronged with callers. The president
was greatly fatigued. The wives of the
cabinet members also received and wed
with each other in display.
I The national house of representatives
passed the pension bill which appropri-
1 ates $79,2f7.5 5000 Mr.. Henderson intro
duced bill authorizing the bridging of
the Mississippi at Dubuque.
THE comptroller of the currency feels
compelled 10 take action upon the mat
ter of calling bonds owned by the nation
al banks, as he has $3,998, 400 of mattured
3 per cents. deposited to secure circula-
ton.
SENATOR SpooSEa presented the petit
ton of the State Grange of Wisconsin
praying for the passage of an Interstate
commerce bill, and expressing the belief
that the public domain ought to be held
for the actual settlers; asking the adop-
ton of a measure preventing the sale of
public lands to aliens, and requesting
that the Commissioner of Agriculture be
given a seat in the Presidents Cabinet.
The commissioner of the general land
Office has notified general land agents in
Kansas to advise all parties making ap-
plications TO enter land heretofore cert
fed TO the state Of Kansas for the bene-
fit of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad company, that such applications
are wholly useless, as no preference or
other night can thus be acquired.
MIS-. CLEVELAND held her first roonday
reception in the green parlor q: the Ex-
ecutiye Mansion Tuesday. She wore a
dress of violet velvet with nalf dozen
pink hearted orchids thrust in the but
tOning. Mrs. Folsom assisted her daugh-
ter. She was attired in black silk. The
reception was q grand success, being very
largely attended.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13
WEALTHY MEN OF COLOR

John F. Cook, the tax collector of the
District of Columbia, is said to be worth
$2o0,ou0. He has held his present Office
for fifteen years.
Elk Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, owns
estates, and his little boy Roscoe Conkling
Bruce, will inherit fortunes when his faith
er dies
Although Representative Smalls, of
South Carolina, boards in Washington, he
is said to be wealthy. and his daughters
airs being educated in New England semi
naries.
Representative O'Hara, the colored
congressman from North Carolina, owns
a threestory brick house in fashionable
quarter of the capital, very near the Pen
dleton mansion.
Fred Douglass owns pretty little place
in the suburbs OF Washington, worth
about $4,000. His home is part of the
Van Hook estate, which was divided and
sold into lots on condition that no col
ored man should ever become a pur
chaser
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13
Fashionable Finger Rings.

Il sell finger-rings from $500 IN "a
$4,000" said a Brooklyn jeweler to an
Eagle reporter. "Of course, the most in
teresting class of rings are those know
as engagement rings. There are but few
varieties of the latter, the most ponnIs,
being plain gold bands, with siamona
settings. Some times ruby IS preferred
but diamonds have the call. No. I do not
suppose it is really necessary for pros.
pective groom to give his fiancee an en-.
gagement-ring, but custom has decreed
it, and in consequence we keep them for
sale. Wedding rings are not so expensive
as they were when l was married. | paid
SIS for the ring with which / married INV
wife twelve years ago. | could now buy
a similar ring just as heavy for S11. No
man should regret the price he pays for
a wedding ring, as the sensation experi.
enced in bsying it seldom comes to ona
more than once in lifetime.
fine, good sized ruby is even more
costly than diamond of the
same size. Their value depend.
wholly on their color. We sell but few
opals, probably because they are eonsid.
cred unlucky. Cats eyes, greenish brown
obOhCc3 WIN q LIZ ~ IuuulAQ through
them, we're formerly very popular with
ladies. Serpent rings are now but sci.
dom worn. OF course, some men viii
load themselves down with iewelry
whether it be fashionable or not. To
buy diamonds judiciously one must be
pretty good judge of those stones. Here
is diamond which l sell at $25, which an
inexperienced buyer could not distinguish
from this stone holding up diamond
of smaller size which is worth Sl25.
One is very much off color, while the
other is pure white, and as clear as a bell.
In fact, the cheaper of the two stones
makes the best showing, is more dazzling
to they eye, and is seen to much better
advantage by gas-light. It's defects, how.
ever, are easily distinguishable to the eye
of the experienced jeweler."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13
CONNECTING LINKS.

The port of Baltimore is closed by ice.
1t is said the Mormon lobby in Wash
ington has already cost the church $780,
600
The transatlantic cable pool has
busted A war of rates will probably
follow.
Silk beaver hats of the same tone as
the costume are worn by the young per
sons.
At recent luncheon in New York tiny
spinning wheels were offered as fayors
Gauze fans are highest in favor, but
are of little use in causing refreshing
breeze.
The capital stock of the North Chicago
Rolling Mill company has been increased
from S5,000000 to S6,0O0,O00.
San Francisco had thirty-one murders
and seyenty-six suicides last year. What's
the matter with the land of sunshine and
flowers?
The sewing-silk and machine-twist
trade has resolved to advance the price of
manufactured goods 10 per cent, to take
place on February /.
OF Bay st. Louis, Miss, the revenue
cutter William A. Seward chased a Snug
gler and fired two shots after him was
outsalled by the strange vessel.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13
POINTS OF PQIITENEss

In the street-Hat lifted when saying
"Good-by' or "How do you doY Also,
when offering a lady a seat or acknow-
Lodging favor.
Keep step with any one that you walk
with,
Always precede a lady up stairs, but ask
if you shall precede her in going through
a crowd or public place.
At the street door Hat off the moment
you step into a private hall.
Let the lady pass first always, unless
she asks You to precede her.
In the parlor Stand till every lady
in the room, also older people are seat
ed.
Rise if a lady enters the room after
you are seated and stand till she takes a
seat.
Look people straight in the face when
they are speaking to you.
Let the ladies pass through door Grst,
standing aside for them.
In the dining room-Take your seats
after ladies and elders.
Never play with your knife, ring or
spoon.
Do not take your napkin up in bunch
in your hand.
Eat as fast or as slow as others and fin
ish the course when they do,
Do not ask to be excused before the
Others unless the reason is imperative.
Rise when ladies' leave the room and
stand till they are out.
If they all go together the gentlemen
stand by the door till ladies pass
Special rules for the mouth-Smaok-
ing the lips and all noise should be avoid
ed.
If obliged TO take anything from the
mouth cover it with your hand or nap
kin.
Bed rooms Never look toward a bed
room.
Always knock a. a bed room door OF at
q private room.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13
A Deceptive World
Detroit Free Press

Il was standing right here by this
spile,' said a stranger yesterday at the
foot of Randolph street to policeman
who had come up, when I saw man
over there by that post. He acted as if
he was in trouble, and I suspected he was
going to jump into the river. l turned
for minute TO watch the ferry boat, and
when | looked again he was gone"
The officer advanced TO the edge of the
dock, peered around, and replied:
Here's a hole in the ice Did you
hear a splash?'
Mo-
Nobody call outt'
No"
And he disappeared all at once?"
''He did sir. You look around here
and I'll take a glance behind that wood
pile"
The officer was seeking a way to get
down on the ice, when the man called to
him, and led him behind pile of wood
There was a man there, and he had bot
tie in his hand.
Same person, sir," whispered the Off
cious individual. II told you l suspected
he was in trouble. 1t wasn't that, sir but
he wanted to take a drink without feeling
obliged to pass the bottle to me, and he
lodged in here, Sorry to have alarmed
you, sir; but this is q world of deception,
and as soon rs you are gone he'll either
divide up, or I'll thump his head for
him."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13
GENERAL NOTES.

TINS Academy OF Music at New York is
10 he sold SO auction.
rHE new soldiers home al Grand Rap
ids, Mith., which cost 100000 ana vii
accommodate 600 persons, was dedicated
Thursday afternoon.
John NJ Laugston, the ex.mi1ister to
Hayti, is rich, and owns some of tina most
valuable property in Washington.
THrRr are five or six inches or snow
at Macon, Georgia, and Jackson. Mississ.
ppi In the latter city the stress are
flled with mproyised sleighs.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13

her fare. Then he was mean enousb %
take from her the few cents she had -
her purse, and to tell her very plainly TIA
exact amount Of the balance due him 7
would have been almost willing to hava
the train Fun off the track if that farmas
passenger could have been killed in H.
accideptN
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13

Look here said a dude 90 a news
paper man, you tell me a couple of good
Jokes. | want to get them of as original
you know, at a little social gathering to
night. will lend you five dollars if you
do"
II don't think It will work. replied the
newspaper man.
why notgH
II am SO blamed poor that if S.
Is found or ny person I'll be suspected
OF having stolen them; and you are 90
stupid that if you get off joke they will
suspect you right Off
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13

SENATOR HAMPTON, of South Carolina,
had for several years a sword that was
worn by an English officer in the famous
charge of the Light brigade at BalaklGva,
The officer was Capt, George johnson,
and after the Crimean war he came 70
this country. Ike served the union m .he
Sd regiment of Pennsylvania c,valry, and
exchanged swords with Col j Lee Ensle.
bert. then a captain ia that commaud.
Col Englebert was captured in Novom-
Der, 1862, at HARDWOOD Church, Virginia,
by Gen. Hamptou's cavalry, and Hamp-
tom preserved the sword as a personal
memento, it beng entirely of s.cel. bas.
kei-hilted, and of quaint and very tine
workmanship. col. Engleberf Wrote p
Senator Hamp ON few months ago ask
ing the favor of its return and received q
corteour reply Of concent; but on search
being made for it the senator was unable
to find the sword, ANA its whereabouts
lust now is unknown. He is determined
to recover it and send it 20 Col. Englc
bert if possible.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13

"FEATnERBoHNE," an article prepared
from the quilts Of geese and turkeys, is
largely taking the place Of whalebone in
the manufacture OF whips etc, for which
whalebone was formerly used exclusively.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-01-13
was disposed of. After exec
session the senate adjourned.
executive

was disposed Of After executive
session the senate adjourned.
House During the morning hour
the house resumed, in committee
of the whole, consideration of the bill for
a permanent improvement of the Erie
Oswego canal, and to secure freedom of
the same TO the commerce of the United
STATES The morning hour having
expired, the committee rose, and the bill
resumed its place upon the calendar.
The house then went into committee of
the whole springer, of Illinois, in the
chair on the pension appropriation bill,
which appropriates ST6,247 800, being
only $1,000 below the estimates, the re-
duction being in the item for the rent of
offices for pension agencies. Without
amendment or discussion the bill was
read, reported to the house and passed
Henderson Iowa introduced bill au-
thorizing the construction of bridge
across the Mississippi river at Dubuque,
Iowa. Referred. The house then ad-
journed.
FRIDAY, Jan. 7.
Senate-In the senate several petit
tions were presented in favor
of the experimental agricultural
stations bill. Also remonstrance signed
by many business men of Dayton, Ohio,
against and petitions from the Business
Mems club of Kenosha, Wis, and from
the Wisconsin State Grange in favor of
the Interstate commerce bill.
henderson, from the committee on
military affairs, reported back the house
bill providing for school CT instruction
for cavalry and light artillery at Fort
Riley, Kas., and for tho completion and
construction of quarters for the army at
certain posts. The bill was amended by
appropriating $4,000 for Fort d. A. Rus
sell and $55,000 for Fort Robinson, Neb.,
and was passed. Mcpherson pre-
scented an amendment to the in
ter-state commerce bill which he
said no would offer when it came up. II
was ordered printed. After executive
session the senate adjourned until
Monday.
House - On motion OF Perkins
(Kas), the senate bill was passed
amending the act providing for the sale
of the Sac and Fox Indian reservation in
Nebraska and Kansas. The amendment
provides for the allotment of lands in
seyeralty to minors and orphans.
Hatch (Mo.), made an unsuccessful
effort to have the private Business dis
pensed with for the day for the purpose
of having the house resume considera-
tion of the bill creating a department of
agriculture and labor but the house went
into committee of the whole on the
private calendar. The committee
soon rose, and the house took
recess until this evening. At the
evening session the house passed
forty-two pension bills, including one
granting $50 a month to the widow of
Durbin Ward. Adjourned.
SATURDAY, Jan. s.
House The committee on civil service
reform reported back the senate bill re
pealing the tenure Of Office act. The
senate joint resolution was passed APP
pointing Jas. p. Angel member of the
board of regents of the Smithsonian in
Mr.. Willis, (Ky.,) reported the
river and harbor bill and the house ad
journed.